Method of ornamenting fabric



Nov. 16, 1943. w. M. KANZOW 2,334,202

METHOD OF ORNAMENTING FABRI C Filed Jan. 26, 1942 WILL/E Mm: KANZOW 3nventor attornegs Patented Nov. 16,1943 t f QMs rno OFJO ItNAMENT I NG FABRIC a j'Willie MaeKanzow, Knoxville, Tenn? 6, 1942,se -ia1,No.42s,32s

. i Application January 2 oann. (01. 2 -278) This invention relatesto a method of ornamenting fabric and more especially to the production of tufted goods. 4 One of the main objects of this invention is to provide a simplified tufted tape and method 1 of attaching the same to a fabric, so that anyone will be able to make their own tufted articles. As disclosed in the drawing, precut lengths ofspaced tufts are sewed to a tearable tape, made of paper or the like, which in turnis preferably wound into rolls and sold to the customer. The tapewill prevent the tufts from getting out of line through rotary twistingmotion and willprevent the individual strands of "yarn from gettin fiuffed before being attached to a ground fabric by the customer. a.

The customer removes that portion of the tape along one side of the sewed lineand then superimposes the remaining portion of the tape and attached tufts upon a markedground fabric to which the tuits'are attached along the marked line. By removing a portion of, the tape, the outline ofthe markbr design on the groundfabric is made visible; After the tapeha's been attached to the ground fabric: by stitching or 1thelike,th

remaining portion o'f 'th'e tape is removed. The 7 original stitching on the tape and the second stitchingresulting from sewing the tape to the ground fabric will doubly secure the tuftsand prevent the strands of the tufts from separating or from becoming detached from the fabric. Some ofthe objects of theinvention having been stated, other objects will appear as the description proceeds, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in.which- Figure 1 is an isometric view of a roll of tufted tape ready for use by the customer;

Figure 2 is an isometric view illustrating a pinrality of tufts secured to a tape;

Figure 3 is an isometric view similar to Figtuft and its associated base fabric after; the have been fiuffed and finished.

..Referring more particularly'to the drawing, and especially toFigure 1, the numeral l0 broadly designates aroll of tufted tape as the same appears when it is sold to a customer. .This roll comprises a tape ll having suitable transversely disposed spaced lengthsof yarn 12 secured there toby any suitable means such as the line of stitches Hi. This line. of stitches may be ,located in any suitable position, but it is usually preferable that the stitches be disposed transversely .and substantially midway the ends of-the. tufts i2. The tape can have the tufts placed thereon by any suitable means, but a preferable way of making the, tape is by using tufts amachine such asshown in Patent No. 2,224,866

of December 17, .1940. This machine has means for. feeding bunches of yarn to the needle of a sewing machine whereby the line of stitches se. cure the tufts to a base fabric. When the line of stitches I4 is provided in the tufts and the tape, aasimultaneous perforationof the tape is effected, thereby providing a, division line so that ure 2 but showing a portion of the tape disposed along one side of the tuft seam line being removed preparatory to attaching the'tufts' to a ground fabric; I I

Figure 4 is an isometricview of a ground fabric showinga mark or ornamentation placed thereon, for guidance when sewing a tufted tape such as shown in Figure 3 thereon;

Figure 5'is an isometric view showing the combination of a ground fabric and a tufted tape such as shown inFigure 3 secured thereon;

Figure 6 is an isometric view similar to Flgure 5 but showing all portions of the tape removed therefrom; r

Figure '7" is a sectional detail view showing ,a

one side of the tape maybe removed without disturbing: theposition of -:the remaining side. It is necessary that the tape l I be made of some suitable tearable material such as paper or the like. As heretofore stated, one of the advantages of providing the tape II in association with the spaced lengths of material I2 is to hold these 1 lengths in position prior to and while they are being attached to a ground fabric, and also inpreventing these tufts from becoming premature- 1y, fluifed.

Before using the spaced tufts as shown in Figures 1 and 2, it is usually necessary for the customer to remove a'portion of the tape, such as I la or lib from one side of the line of stitches Id. In Figure 3 the portion Ila is shown par-' tially removed thereby leaving lib and the line of stitches I4 in position. Upon the complete removal of the portion Ila forexample, the portion Nb and the attached tufts I2 are then superimposed upon a ground fabric 16, said fabric having a suitable mark orornamentation l1 inscribed thereon for guidance in attaching the tufts to the fabric. In the makingy of tufted articles, these articles have heretofore ordinarily been made by what is known as-the tufting machine, in which yarn is carried through the fabric by a needle and a looper and cutter forms loops and cuts the same on the lower sideof the fabric.

It has also been customary to form a design over the face of the base fabric by means of stencilling or other suitable markings, whereby both simple and complicated patterns are formed and then the operator causes the needle to traverse this line of markings to produce the desired tufts on the base fabric. In the drawand thisis'a straight line, but it is evident that these lines will appear over the major portion of the base fabric in some instances and will be curved, to form varioustypes of designs. When the portion llb and the tufts are placed upon the fabric IS, the line of stitches I4 is caused tosubstantially coincide with the mark gl'l, after which a second row of stitches l 8 is T used for securing thetufts to the fabric-along this mark (Figure 5). Then the remaining portion Nb of tape I l is removed tocause the fabric to appear as shown in Figur e'li." Theifabric'zand attached tufts are then treated so as to fluff the tufts and to cause each individual tuft lZa to appear substantially as shown in Figurerfl. a rule, the mark or ornamentation It? comprises some suitable fugitive dye or marking material which will (readily. disappear when vwashing-the fabric. Although a preferable way to remove the paper or other'material llb is, by manually 2,334,202 g ".1 1 F? i. e., having each tuft penetrated twice by a line "ing there is only shown a single line of tufts of stitches. The first line of stitches l4 penetrates the tufts l2 to hold them in spaced rela-.

tion to each other and upon the tape II; whereas the secondline of stitches l8 penetrates the,

tufts to hold'the same to the ground fabric Hi. This double line of stitches will hold the individual strands in the tufts in position and prevent their separation from the base fabric.

In.Figures.5 and 6 of the drawing, .the second line of stitches 18 is shown slightly in an offset relation to the first line of stitches l4. This offsetting of the second line is solely for the purpose of illustrating the invention. In actual pradtice however,.one line of stitches will be superimposed upon each other to thereby cause both lines "or stitches to be located midway the :endslofithezindividual tufts.

It .is therefore seen that this invention provides'a simple method whereby tufted articles such :as bedspreads curtains, draperies, dress materialzandzmany other fabrics can .be; produced from this tape by meansof-an ordinary sewing ance as if .madefon a tuftingimac-hineeither 'of removlngthe same, it is evidentthat it can-be left-in position, because. when the base. fabric with theattached tuft is laundered this paper strip or other material will naturally disappear and disintegrate. In fact, if desired, the :strip :l la, need not be removed before sewing but both strips lla and llb cani'be left for removal .during the laundering operation, as the only advantage in removing strip Ila" prior to sewing the I tufts to the base fabric is to cause the central portion of the tufts tobeattached to xthe base fabric at the point of marking.

' By providing this removable tapeiformed from divisible sections ll a and llb, the mark.or:ornameiitation l7 will be .clearlyvisible during'the second stitching op'eration as shown inFigure 5. During the second stitching operation, the remaining portion llb of the-tape will serve 'to. hold the tufts in .alinement. There ':is an iaddi tional advantage :in providing this new-method.

machine by the, -average housewife andain which the ifinished product will 'have the sameappeareg'Ihat' method .ofornamenting a marked fabric I which comprises sewing a plurality of transversely disposed lengths ;.of yarn to a tearable tape .03: :material, :removing all of said material fromszonelside of the sewed line, superimposing the remaining :tape and .attached lengths upon thezfabric ;to .cause th'e :sewed line. to coincide .with thefifabric mark, :and then securing the 45 lengthsito.thezfabricaalong saidimark.

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